Niwat Maneekarn, Ph.D.
Professor
Niwat.m@cmu.ac.th, nmaneeka@gmail.com
Office
Boonsom Martin building, room 1045, Faculty of Medicine
Research interest
Our laboratory is interested in molecular epidemiology and genetic characterization of the viruses that cause diarrhea in humans and animals, including rotavirus, norovirus, sapovirus, astrovirus, adenovirus, enterovirus, kobuvirus, parechovirus, saffold virus, cosavirus, bocavirus, and etc. The zoonotic potential, emerging and re-emerging of new variants, reassortant and recombinant strains, as well as contamination of these viruses in the environment that might be the potential sources of human and animal infections are the main focus of our research interest.
Short biography
Dr. Niwat Maneekarn is a Professor in the Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University. He received a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (D.V.M.) degree with honor in 1972 from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Chulalongkorn University and Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Pathobiology in 1974 from the Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand. He received his Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology in 1985 from the University of Illinois at Health Science Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA. To date, he published more than 160 articles in the international journals that have been cited for 3288 times in the international journals with an H-index of 35. In addition, he wrote 7 book-chapters on the diarrheal viruses which were published in 6 books by International Publishers and 1 textbook on rotaviruses.
Field of research
Virology, Viral epidemiology, Bioinformatics
Current projects
- Emerging and re-emerging of diarrheal viruses
- Analysis of genetic relationship of diarrheal viruses detected in humans, animals, and environmental water reservoir